Nicolas Lancret

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Nicolas Lancret
1690-1743
Two Seated Women
Red chalk on cream laid paper.
6 x 7 1/2 inches (152 x 190 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
III, 93a
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Formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste Pater.

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Watermark: Hand with curved thumb, or glove with cuff.

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Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 1695-1736, Formerly attributed to.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 44.

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